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While I'm here...
Since I'm updating here about my writing and decisions to make, here's another one ( Read more... ) -
Deadline
So, I want to make a public declaration. But only kinda public. If I did this on Facebook, it would feel wrong, to me, more attention grabby. More, I'm looking to say this out loud and in public to make myself accountable in some way. I don't have an author blog/website yet, and I know that I need to get on that soon. But for now, this is the ( Read more... ) -
Starting a website
Well, It's been about 6 weeks since I quit my job to become a full-time writer. Yay me! Of course, the first 3 weeks of that, I was a full time dad with 2 kinds, no school, and no day-care. So, no writing as well. We had tons of fun. I took the girls to the zoo, the aquarium, the pool; we rode bikes, went shopping, etc. Lots of good quality ( Read more... ) -
La Di Dah....
I can't remember the last time I've posted here, or even the last time I've had the time to post. I'm right now sitting for a 1-hr break during a crazy hectic day, and it's almost stressful to have un-allocated time lately ( Read more... ) -
Mad Scienists and ethics
I'm a scientist. If you've known me for more than 30 seconds, you know that already. You may or may not know that I am, depending on what definitions you want to go by, a geneticist, a developmental biologist, a cell biologist, a genetic engineer, and a guy that clones things on a regular basis. I wrote (and got funded) a grant to work with stem ( Read more... ) -
Long overdue, a Books Read update
Wow, So it's been nearly 7 months since I've posted to my list of books read. I've read a lot of books since then.... 21 books. That's going to make this a bit of a long post, except that I am collating all my reviews of Patrick O'Brian books, which feels like half the list. Oye. here we go.
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Got a mind like a steel trap. Rusted shut.
Memory is a funny thing. My memory for connecting people's names and faces is beyond abysmal. My memory for performing tasks that are not already a habit is terrible. My memory even for imortant scientific things is shotty at best ( Read more... ) -
Pancakes and meteorology
I made pancakes again this morning. Usually, when I make pancakes, the girls want theirs in various animal or flower shapes. Today, Holly told me, "Daddy, I want my pancake a raincloud, and it'll go Boom! Boom! rain rain rain ( Read more... ) -
Wow, did I call it?
Hey - remember when I wrote this? Remember how I wrote about wanting to write an 80s competition movie screenplay about college a cappella groups? Remember how the whole reason I didn't much care for Glee was that it was almost but not quite what I wanted to do, to the point I didn't think I'd ever have the opportunity (whether I tried to do it or ( Read more... ) -
More books from this year
Well, I broke the cycle with a few actual posts last month, but this time I'm going back to my old habit of just using LJ as my own personal library card. Here's my latest list of books read for this year. I think I'm at 33 total, and it's mid May. I have no concept of how I am doing it this quickly, other than that the dead-tree books I'm ( Read more... )